Every once in a while I always ask myself certain questions. But one that keeps recurring is, do i really know that much about my parents? It took a history project to get me to recently ask myself this question. I was supposed to interview a relative that grew up in a different period of time. I thought about interviewing my grandfather. He has so many different stories from growing up in Mexico, but then I would need my dad to help me translate some of his words because he is fluent in Spanish and speaks only some English. Since that idea would not work that well, I thought about interviewing my dad. He has a couple of good life experiences to share and he enjoyed listening to most of the music that I like. The only major problem with this, is that my dad was going away to Denver, Colorado for a business meeting. My mom recommended that I should interview our neighbor Jewel. That was when I found the perfect person to interview staring me right in the face, my mom.
She is only one generation before me, but this was the time where great advancements in technology took place. My mom would probably be the best adult that could expose me to the life from a few years back. I asked her if I could interview her for my project, and sure enough she let me. It was a very casual interview. We sat down. She was reading the paper when I asked her a couple of questions. And all of a sudden I was done. In the twenty-five to thirty minutes that I interviewed my mom, I learned a few things that I had never known about her before. I found out that the first place she lived in America was Oahu, Hawaii. She also told me that her family lived right across the street from the hospital her mother worked at. I thought that this was pretty cool because after her father and brothers had surgeries, they would just walk it home. Learning about this new information has surely impacted the way I use to depict the kind of person my mom as.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
MTV 2009 VMA's
The MTV Video Music Awards was a fascinating night. It contained mind-blowing live performances by so many artists of different genres. Muse, Green Day, Katy Perry, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Pink, and many more music artists had a share in the limelight. I was especially amazed by Lady gaga's performance. I am the kind of person who normally does not enjoy listening to pop music because of new-age technology that has altered so many the musical artists' natural voices. So many pop stars (who's names I will not mention) probabaly don't even sing that well live becuase they have resorted to bizzare dances and lip-syncing. I was amazed at Lady gaga's natural voice. I heard the song paparazzi on the radio and her voice sounded completely different (fake) compared to what it sounded like live. To be honest, I think that she is a great singer with a powerful unmodified voice. The other thing that I really liked about her performance was when she started bleeding and scared the audience. If I was wrong about Lady gaga, then I feel ashamed about saying that pop music is full of a bunch of lip-syncing dance freaks.
The other reason why I brought up the Video Music Awards was because of the little dramatic incident involving Kanye West and Taylor Swift. The way he acted was pretty disrespectul. I was sort of suprised because he just marched onstage and said what he said. It sounded a little bit like a cheesy joke, so I thought it was something that MTV had put him up to, but I guess it wasn't. Everyone took the joke/comment he made the wrong way and got really pissed off at him. Taylor Swift looked pretty hurt after Kanye implied how Beyonce should have won. I didn't get to hear Kanye's side of the story until today. My mom told me that Kanye apologized on Jay Leno. She told me that Jay asked Kanye, "How would your mother feel if she saw what you did?" Kanye broke into tears and said that the reason the incident happened was because of his mother's death. He still hasn't gotten over it and tries to block out the pain with drinking. While I was watching the award show, my mom pointed out that he did in fact have an alcoholic beverage of some sort. Hopefully, this won't happen again.
The other reason why I brought up the Video Music Awards was because of the little dramatic incident involving Kanye West and Taylor Swift. The way he acted was pretty disrespectul. I was sort of suprised because he just marched onstage and said what he said. It sounded a little bit like a cheesy joke, so I thought it was something that MTV had put him up to, but I guess it wasn't. Everyone took the joke/comment he made the wrong way and got really pissed off at him. Taylor Swift looked pretty hurt after Kanye implied how Beyonce should have won. I didn't get to hear Kanye's side of the story until today. My mom told me that Kanye apologized on Jay Leno. She told me that Jay asked Kanye, "How would your mother feel if she saw what you did?" Kanye broke into tears and said that the reason the incident happened was because of his mother's death. He still hasn't gotten over it and tries to block out the pain with drinking. While I was watching the award show, my mom pointed out that he did in fact have an alcoholic beverage of some sort. Hopefully, this won't happen again.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
What Will I Blog About?
For my blogs, I plan on writing about numerous subjects. I want to write about things that I use or activities I do on an average day of the week or weekend. School is probably going to be a major topic because most of my life revolves around it. I wake up early to get ready for school. I talk and fool around with my friends at school. And even when I get home, I have to do work for school. Other topics that I will most likely write about will be music and movies. When writing about movies, I will share my opinions about different genres and favorites that I have enjoyed watching for many years. This might apply to my thoughts on music as well. Ever since my cousin and father had enlightened me to the world of rock and metal, my view on music has changed quite a bit.
This year, I hope to improve my writing in one major way. I really want to find my own individual style. In sixth and seventh grade, I had teachers that gave the class handouts on formats they wanted their students’ essays to look like. I got so use to following and relying on the formats that it almost became second-nature to look at the handouts the whole time I wrote any document. Then, in eighth grade, I had a teacher that objected to that form of writing. He made us write final drafts only one paragraph long almost every other night. He disliked the “filler” sentences and words that were there only so the students could reach the assignments minimal length. For his essays he wanted us to explain everything because it is better to leave the reader well-informed rather than completely lost. He would always say, “In my class, two plus two equals five as long as you can explain it.” Since people see things in different way, this caused group discussions to have multiple answers to just a single question that was brought up. I was finally starting to understand writing. But, that was a while ago, and I haven’t written as much ever since then. In ninth grade other classes gave me more homework than English class, so I might be a little rusty. I just hope that I can try to improve on interpreting and explaining the text again.
This year, I hope to improve my writing in one major way. I really want to find my own individual style. In sixth and seventh grade, I had teachers that gave the class handouts on formats they wanted their students’ essays to look like. I got so use to following and relying on the formats that it almost became second-nature to look at the handouts the whole time I wrote any document. Then, in eighth grade, I had a teacher that objected to that form of writing. He made us write final drafts only one paragraph long almost every other night. He disliked the “filler” sentences and words that were there only so the students could reach the assignments minimal length. For his essays he wanted us to explain everything because it is better to leave the reader well-informed rather than completely lost. He would always say, “In my class, two plus two equals five as long as you can explain it.” Since people see things in different way, this caused group discussions to have multiple answers to just a single question that was brought up. I was finally starting to understand writing. But, that was a while ago, and I haven’t written as much ever since then. In ninth grade other classes gave me more homework than English class, so I might be a little rusty. I just hope that I can try to improve on interpreting and explaining the text again.
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